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Title:	FIO34-C. Distinguish between characters read from a file and EOF or WEOF
Author:	David Svoboda	Nov 27, 2013
Last Changed by:	Joerg Herter	Oct 29, 2025
Tiny Link: (useful for email)	https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/x/TNUxBQ
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SEI CERT Oracle Coding Standard for Java (1)     Page: FIO08-J. Distinguish between characters or bytes read from a stream and -1

SEI CERT C Coding Standard (3)     Page: DCL03-C. Use a static assertion to test the value of a constant expression     Page: STR31-C. Guarantee that storage for strings has sufficient space for character data and the null terminator     Page: ERR02-C. Avoid in-band error indicators

Android (1)     Page: Unknown Applicability (C Rules/Recomendations)

Parent Page     Page: Rule 09. Input Output (FIO)

• nptc
• fio
• android-unknown
• rule
• nptc-complexity
• in-cpp

Time	Editor
Oct 29, 2025 07:58	Joerg Herter	View Changes
May 05, 2025 09:03	Swasti Shrivastava	View Changes
REM Cost Reform
Dec 12, 2024 01:23	Swasti Shrivastava	View Changes
Sep 19, 2024 13:08	Swasti Shrivastava	View Changes
Sep 18, 2024 12:57	Swasti Shrivastava

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    https://www.mathworks.com/help/bugfinder/ref/certcrulefio34…
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    www.cert.org/historical/advisories/CA-1996-22.cfm
    cwe.mitre.org/
    https://cwe.mitre.org/data/index.html197.html

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